I used to play a game called Hunt the Wumpus.
When was the first time you saw the Last Page?
The Dysfunctional Family Circus
I came to mention Zombo. I remember sending a friend to zombo.com, and he totally didn’t get it.
The Bettmann Archive. My picture searches always took me there. Watch the pictures load, line by line!
I remember often logging into CERN as a hub of sorts prior to Mosaic and Netscape.
I just remember the times when you could go to a search engine and type whatever + download and find whatever you were looking for…
Aww, robert_columbia, I was going to mention the Big Red Button that Doesn’t Do Anything!
Among actual useful pages, there’s xxx.lanl.gov , which was not, despite the URL, a porn site (I think they chose “xxx” because it’s the next letter after “www”). It still exists, in much the same form (except a lot bigger), but they changed the name to arxiv.org .
And less useful, Yahoo used to have a category called “X of the day”, for all of the picture of the day, joke of the day, Bible verse of the day, etc. websites. So some joker created a site that was literally “X of the day”, with a new picture every day of the letter X on a sign or something.
The Kids in the Hall fan site http://kithfan.org/ has been around forever (ok maybe only since 1998). Glad to see she is still around - musta taken forever to write all those transcripts!
The Monty Python fan site pythonline.com was very old school but they had a lot of nice drawings. It was hard to navigate!
The Dead Milkmen’s web site was one of the very first sites I went to on the www and it was pretty much the same layout until a couple years ago when they “tidied up” and then they went a totally different direction, making the site much more like their newsletters from the 80s. Now they just kind of want us to interact via social media.
Meh. My own damn web site still reeks of early internet.
Yeah, you remember the notion of having one’s “own web site”, right? PageMill, baby! 
You beat me to it!
I hate to have to keep saying this, but: the internet began in the sixties; the web didn’t get started until 1991. Any websites created in the time of ‘the early internet’ were being done by time travelers.
That said, if we’re sticking to the web, and not, say, Usenet, I’ll toss in Wave to the Cats.
Blex’s Page of Good MP3s
I remember when the regular at rec.arts.movies first created it. When someone would ask a question like “Who starred in such and such?” he would basically advertise the site to let them know it was there.
Then don’t. We all know the difference between the web and the other parts of the internet. And if your early memories are logging into Arpanet then fine, say that. But no need to be a pedantic nerd about it. Most people’s first encounter with the Internet was the World Wide Web, or AOL’s version of it, so it’s not like anybody’s actually wrong here.
A fellow BOFH fan!
In case you haven’t seen it, here are the BOFH archives. Enjoy!
Wow–I haven’t thought about some of these in years.
I remember Mirsky’s Worst of the Web also, and humour sites the Brunching Shuttlecocks and The Corporation. Alta Vista and Geocities, too.
Then name escapes me now but long before webcams were common some girl had her apartment rigged and her whole life basically played out on the web. And this was back in the day when everyone was on dial-up. No porn star or anything and no fee that I recall when it started. Just a regular run of the mill exhibitionist really stretching the new technology. Jenna? Something like that?
There used to be an early website where you could “make” virtual pizzas, choosing your toppings. At the time, it seemed amazing to contemplate that maybe one day you would be able to actually order a real pizza that way.
JenniCam!
Where are they now?